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Captains Courageous (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

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Synopsis

When Harvey Cheyne, the precocious and arrogant son of an American railway tycoon, is rescued from drowning by a New England fishing boat, he is unable to convince the crew to take him to shore and is forced to take a job on board the schooner. With no other choice, he must quickly adapt to life at sea, learning to sail and to fish. Thrown into this unfamiliar environment, he comes to understand the importance of hard work and dignity, and begins to reassess his former values, resulting in a remarkable transformation of character and spirit.

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About the Author

Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling is chiefly known for his short stories and poems about life in nineteenth-century India. He was the author of Kim, The Jungle Book, The Just So Stories, short stories like ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ and such poems as ‘If’ and ‘Mandalay’. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, he died in 1936.

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